Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence

English writer

Lived from: 1885 - 1930

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  • The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught.
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  • The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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  • The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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  • The real way of living is to answer to one's wants.
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  • The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
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  • The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
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  • The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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  • The way to kill any feeling is to insist on it, harp on it, exaggerate it.
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  • The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
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  • The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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  • There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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  • They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
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  • This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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  • Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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  • Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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  • Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are wall-eyed.
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  • We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
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  • We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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  • We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
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  • We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
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